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News & Notes: Game 133 & 134
Buffalo Bisons
71-61, 2nd(-9.5)
G1 RHP Gee 13-7, 4.87; G2 TBA
80-51, 1st(+9.5)
G1 LHP Igawa 2-3, 4.64; G2 Hirsh 9-7, 3.96
Saturday, August 28, 2010
PNC Field – Moosic, PA
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, bisons.com
TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Bisons face the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees in the first two games of a three-game series from PNC Field (5:35 p.m.). The Herd is coming off a two-game split in Syracuse to start this five-game in four-day roadtrip. This is only Buffalo's second doubleheader this year, as they lost both games of a twin bill to Pawtucket on August 22.
WILD RACE: With last night's win, the Bisons pulled back to within two games of Columbus in the IL Wild Card race. The Clippers lost to Louisville on Friday, 2-1. The Herd has 12 games left to Columbus' 10 and can make up even more ground with tonight's doubleheader. The Clippers host Indy tonight.
vs. THE YANKS: The Bisons are 6-4 against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this season, including a 4-1 mark at PNC Field. The Herd won three of four in Moosic to begin the season, April 8-11, and won the only game in a rain-shortened series on August 11. Tonight's game one starter, RHP DILLON GEE, is 2-0 with a 0.00ERA and 12 strikeouts in two starts against the Yanks in 2010.
GOSH GOLLY: RHP DILLON GEE can add to his Triple-A leading strikeout total tonight. Gee has 150 punchouts, 12 more than any pitcher at this level. He has 27 in his last four starts as the righty recently cruised past the Bisons modern era single-season strikeout record (was 137, RHP Vicente Palacios, 1990). Gee is also second in the International League with 13 wins, just one behind Durham's RHP Richard De Los Santos.
WELL CERVED: INF MIKE CERVENAK has hit in eight-straight games, the longest active streak on the team. Since August 21, the infielder has averaged .455 (15-33) with two doubles, three RBI and six runs scored. Cervenak is hitting .338 (27-80) in 21 games this month to bring his average up to .260, the highest it's been since the opening weekend of the season.
FELICIANO BACK: OF JESUS FELICIANO has been optioned back to the Bisons after his third stint with the Mets this season. Feliciano still carries a .342 (100-292) average in 78 games with the Herd. He is 35 plate appearances shy of league qualification. His average would lead all hitters by six points.
METS UPDATE: The Mets (64-64) picked up the 2-1 win over the Astros on Friday night. New York had just three hits, but got eight dominating innnings from RHP MIKE PELFREY. Pelfrey allowed just six hits and struck out four to improve to 13-7 on the season. Bisons INF LUIS HERNANDEZ had his contract selected by New York before the game. The Mets host the Astros again tonight at 7:10 p.m.
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Transcend … and spontaneously drink less
Conclusion of 12 studies with 4000 subjects: TM works, even if nothing else works.
Alcohol addicts are mostly ordinary people who want to feel good, and who have become dependent on alcohol to create this feeling. This dependency is usually very deeply rooted in the psyche and experience has shown that superficial treatment methods are largely ineffective.
Transcending is a state where the mind comes back home, a state of spontaneous inner happiness that he was searching for. At the same time transcending will activate the body's own healing power so that the addiction will also be removed on the physical level. As a result, alcoholics discover that their urge to drink becomes less and less, completely spontaneously, without even trying to drink less.
Scientific research on 4000 subjects confirms: TM works!
During the last 40 years 14 different scientific studies, involving a total of 4000 subjects, have confirmed the effect of Transcendental Meditation on alcohol addiction,.
With this many studies, a far more reliable conclusion of the effectiveness of TM can be made by calculating the average effect of all 14 studies and comparing this result with all other methods to fight alcoholism that were ever studied (83 scientific studies into other methods).
TM is 2 to 10 times more effective than other methods, particularly with heavy drinkers
The comparative analysis revealed that other methods can actually do very little for alcoholics. The effect of Transcendental Meditation on alcohol consumption was 2 to 4 times larger than all other methods that were ever studied (p=.009). It becomes even more impressive when one looks at the effect of Transcendental Meditation on "serious users", the heavy drinkers, as was done in some studies. Here, the effect of TM is almost 10 times larger than with other methods. This confirms the general experience that the more dramatic the problem is, the greater the effect of transcending usually is. (Click on the graph to enlarge it)Ref.Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 11: 13–87, 1994
The longer one practices TM, the less the need to drink becomes.
The longer TM, the less people drink
Just like for tobacco- and drugs addictions, several studies into alcohol addiction have confirmed the general experience of many TM practitioners, that the longer one practices the TM technique, the less one feels the need to drink (heavy).
This is clearly illustrated by a large-scale study with 1,862 TM practitioners, conducted by scientists at the Harvard Medical School. (Click on the graph to enlarge it). The total number of "hard liquor" users is halved after 10 months. But if we look in more detail, we see that the number "light" users" is decreasing by 30% but that that the number of "heavy users" drops by almost 80% (from 19% before starting TM to 4% after 10 months). The effect is the strongest for those who need it most.Ref.Drug abuse: Proceedings of the International Conference, Philadelphia: 1972, pp. 369-376
Note: This was not a study where subjects were learning TM with the intention to reduce their consumption of alcohol. The researchers were just looking at the spontaneous behaviour after a period of TM practice with 1800 TM practitioners. If one really has the intention to stop drinking alcohol the effect is usually much stronger.
The increasing effect which comes with longer TM practice, is in sharp contrast with most other methods. The earlier addiction comparison shows that, of all those who have successfully completed their treatment with other methods than TM, after one month 35% are drinking again (from 100% abstainers to 65% after one month), and after 3 months, almost 60% have relapsed (42% abstainers). This shows how difficult it is to treat alcoholism on a superficial level.
For more studies that are confirming these results, see Research Alcohol Addictions. It is very interesting to know that in several of these studies, reduction of alcohol use was not the primary target of research, but was just found as a side-effect while other changes were investigated, like reduced depression or anxiety.
For more information on how and why the Transcendental Meditation technique is so effective for alcohol addictions, see: Doctors answering questions: TM and alcohol addictions
How can a simple technique do so much?
600 studies confirm the effect of TM with:
- Less stress
- How TM works
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Emotional stability
- Insomnia
- Impulsivity
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Better Health
- General Health
- Atherosclerosis
- Hypertension
- Cholesterol
- Diabetes
- Fibromyalgia
- Becoming Younger
- Addictions
- Quitting Smoking
- Alcoholism
- Drug Addiction


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Just a quick reminder to io9 Book Club readers that this month's pick is The City & The City by China Miéville. Our meeting will begin July 26, so get reading!
Undecided? You can read Grey_Area's review of The City & The City here.
What's this whole crazy book club thing? Let me tell you all about it.
For those unfamiliar with the io9 book club, here's how it works: You read the book. We post here when the meeting is in session (it starts Monday the 26th), and we talk about the book in comments for a few days. We're hoping Miéville will join us that week too, so you can ask him burning questions.
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Gold Medal Hoopster Andy McGuffin '51
Andy McGuffin '51 would be an impressive athlete at half his age. by Alex Meril '07
A mile-long walk in the neighborhood, 50 push-ups, basketball practice at the local YMCA, a five-mile bicycle ride, and 200 sit-ups before bed may seem like an extraordinary exercise regimen for even the most hardened athlete, but for 82-year-old Andrew (Andy) McGuffin '51, it's just an ordinary day's workout.
Now a retiree living in Umatilla, Florida, with his wife, Maryellen, Andy was named Male Athlete of the Year at the 2005 Florida Sports Foundation state championship. He made 29 of 30 shots, winning the gold medal in the basketball free-throw division for the 80–84 age category. In 10 Florida Senior Games championships since 1995 Andy has completed 282 of 300 free-throw attempts, earning a 94-percent accuracy mark. He once sank a remarkable 400 consecutive free throws.
"I've always been very disciplined," says Andy. "When I compete in any type of activity or sport I want to win. If I lose I will go out and work harder so I won't lose the next time."
Andy has always exhibited that type of drive, beginning as a child in Glens Falls, New York, where he was involved in athletics ranging from swimming to football. After high school Andy served with the U.S. Navy on the U.S.S. Essex aircraft carrier during World War II. He returned home at the end of the war to earn his bachelor of science degree in physical education from Ithaca College.
"I had to take a couple of courses before Ithaca College would accept me," says Andy. "Most of the men at Ithaca with me were war veterans going to school under the G.I. Bill."
He thoroughly enjoyed his time at IC in its downtown days, making many friends and participating in varsity basketball, baseball, soccer, and cross country. He was also a member of the Delta Kappa fraternity. "I took a dance class at a candy store in downtown Ithaca," Andy recalls. "Now you have a beautiful campus."
After graduating Andy coached boys' wrestling at his high school alma mater's rival school, South Glens Falls High. Andy channeled the work ethic he has for his personal athletics into coaching the team, leading them to a 104–4 record. "I had 10 years in our conference, and we were never beaten," says Andy. "Even when I'm coaching, I hate to lose. They were great kids, and we worked really hard to win."
In 1983 Andy moved to Lake County, Florida, where he became superintendent of an apartment building. He kept that job until he retired in 1990. In 1995 he was named to the New York High School Section II Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Today Andy is a point guard for the traveling Magic Seniors 3-on-3, a basketball team he has played with for 14 years. In June he and his teammates will travel to Louisville, Kentucky, to play in the nationals. While Andy is noted as a star within his peer group, he says his success in free throwing is due to his "old school" method of shooting, a style long forgotten in today's NBA. "I still shoot how they taught you in the olden days, with a two-handed shot," Andy says. "When I was in high school everyone shot with two hands. Today everyone shoots with one."
Although his first passion is sports, Andy also loves hunting, a pastime he participates in once a year when he travels home to upstate New York with a group of close friends. In recent years Andy has endured two knee replacement surgeries and often responds to the doubts of friends and family, who ask why he still competes so tirelessly at his age.
"I will keep competing as long as my body permits," says Andy. "And maybe in the process, I'll live a little bit longer."


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Although Drupal 6 handles node translation with the i18n module very well, Ubercart seems to have a bit of difficulty with it. I believe that most of the problems are due to the nature of translated nodes, which are actually completely different nodes that are glued together with some metadata. This fact, for example, is the reason Ubercart will create a product translation as a new product separate from the original.
As I tried to setup a multi-lingual store (English/French) store with Ubercart, I encountered many problems that seemed to be all over Google, but had no resolution posted or the solutions to the problems were fragmented across different sites and support threads. So after a lot of searching, reading PHP backtraces and hacking the Ubercart core modules, I was finally able to have a good Ubercart catalog set up in two languages! I've compiled a list of problems and their solutions below if you are also having problems. Feel free to use any part or all of the code samples on your site.
Note: The code in this tutorial has been confirmed to work with Ubercart 2.2. It should also work with future versions, but may require some minor tweaks.
Problem: "add to cart" and other form buttons need to be translated
Ubercart handles form button texts like "add to cart" via multi-lingual variables. Multi-lingual variables differ from strings that use Drupal's t() function in that they will not appear in the site's Translate Interface utility. Instead, multi-lingual store a value for each of the site's languages and load the appropriate string depending on which language the user is currently browsing in.
In the case of "add to cart", this simply means that one must browse to Administer > Store Administration > Configuration > Product Settings and click on the Edit button. Switch the site language to the desired language and enter new values in the "Add to cart button text" configuration box. Once the values have been saved, you will be able to switch to a different language and enter new values for that language.
Problem: Ubercart does not synchronize product data across translated nodes (product information needs to be updated for each translation)
As I mentioned in the introduction, this is due to the fact that each translation is in fact a node to itself. Since Drupal assigns each node with content type "product" the standard Ubercart attribute set, each product node must be updated individually. Fortunately, there is a quick and easy was to solve this by creating a custom module:
- Enable the i18nsync ("Synchronize Translations") module in Administer > Site building > Modules
- Create a custom module which will hook into i18nsync:
- Create the folder
- Paste the following into
name = Custom module
description = A custom module which helps with the translation of an Ubercart store
core = 6.x
- Paste into
* Implementation of hook_i18nsync_fields_alter().
function custommod_i18nsync_fields_alter($fields, $type) {
if(in_array($type, uc_product_types())) {
$fields['uc_products']['#title'] = 'Products';
// These values were found by doing a print_r($node) in node-product.tpl.php
$fields['uc_products']['#options'] = array (
'model' => 'SKU',
'list_price' => 'List Price',
'cost' => 'Cost',
'sell_price' => 'Sell Price',
'weight' => 'Weight',
'weight_units' => 'Weight Units',
'dim_length' => 'Length',
'dim_width' => 'Width',
'dim_height' => 'Height',
'length_units' => 'Length Units',
'pkg_qty' => 'Quantity',
'default_qty' => 'Default quantity to add to cart'
- Create the folder
- Go to Administer > Site building > Modules and enable "Custom module"
- Go to Administer > Content management > Content types and edit the "Product" content type
- Under Workflow Settings > Synchronize translations, select all fields you would like to synchronize. However, do not select the Taxonomy terms option (see below for why)
- Repeat this step for any other product classes/content types whose product data you want synchronized
That's all! If you edit a node in one language, you should see the updated product data in all other languages as well. The only caveat is that product attributes and product options will still need to be added and updated on each translation.
Thanks to user gupa on Ubercart support forums for posting this fix (see reference 1)
Problem: Taxonomy terms are untranslated in Catalog block
This one had me puzzled for a long time. At first, I had enabled localized terms for the Catalog vocabulary. After I created some terms, I translated them using the Translate Interface tool as usual, but this did not work. Editing a product would show the localized term in the Catalog list, however viewing the product always resulted in the untranslated term being displayed on the Catalog block. The solution is to navigate to Administer > Content management > Taxonomy and edit the Catalog vocabulary, choosing Per language terms. Use the following procedure to define taxonomy term translations:
- Browse to Administer > Content management > Taxonomy
- Add a new term with its translations:
- Add a new term to the Catalog vocabulary in the default language of your store and choose that language from the drop-down menu
- Repeat the above step, but enter the desired translated texts for the term (including a translated term name)
- Repeat the above step, but enter the desired translated texts for the term (including a translated term name)
- Click on the Translation tab of the taxonomy interface
- Click Create new translation and pair up the original term with its translations
- Repeat the step above for each term that you created earlier.
This is why you do not want to synchronize taxonomy terms, with this setup each term is translated the same way nodes are - separate terms per node, linked together with some metadata. Synchronizing taxonomy terms would result in your products appearing in the right categories but in the wrong languages!
Problem: Adding items to the cart in one language, then switching to another language does not localize the cart contents
This is an unusual situation, but it's a very annoying problem; adding an item to the cart, switching languages and then click on that same item in the cart will open the product in first language, not the one the customer is browsing your website in. To solve this, hook_cart_item() will be used to override the default cart rendering with our own version which will replace node with translated nodes. Open the custom module file,
sites/all/modules/custommod/custommod.module, which was created earlier and add before the closing
?> tag:
* Implementation of hook_add_to_cart().
function custommod_add_to_cart($nid, $qty, $data) {
/* Due to Drupal's use of multiple nodes for product translations, the same
* product in a different language is treated as a different product entirely.
* This is problematic as the same product in different languages can be added
* to the cart simultaneously. This function works around that problem by
* always using the tnid/original node. As a result, the cart must be
* localized as it is displayed.
$node = node_load($nid);
// Determine if this node is the source node or a translated one
// Remember: tnid is 0 if there are no translations
$is_source = ($node->nid == $node->tnid || $node->tnid == 0) ? 1 : 0;
if ($is_source) {
// If it is the source, then all is well…
$result[] = array('success' => TRUE);
} else {
/* If we are not the source node, then fail to add this product silently and
* call uc_cart_add_item() to add the source node's product instead. It will
* be localized later - see custommod_cart_item()
uc_cart_add_item($node->tnid, $qty, $data);
$result[] = array('success' => FALSE, 'silent' => TRUE);
// Remember: We need an array in an array here
return $result;
* Implementation of hook_cart_item().
function custommod_cart_item($op, &$item) {
/* hook_cart_display() isn't really a hook, it's mostly for internal use.
* However, we do need to access later. Setting $item->module forces
* a module_invoke() call in uc_cart.module to call custommod_cart_display()
* instead of the default uc_product_cart_display(). We will call
* uc_product_cart_display() inside our function to ensure things work as
* usual in future versions.
$item->module = "custommod";
/* Note that although it is possible to use check for case 'load' in $op and
* then override the $item->nid and $item->title values, this will cause bugs
* when attempting to add or remove products in different languages. To
* resolve these bugs, we are forcing the use of custommod_cart_display() and
* rewriting the code for the title, img, and anchors to localize the cart.
* Implementation of hook_cart_display().
function custommod_cart_display($item) {
/* Call uc_product_cart_display() to get things setup as usual and to ensure
* this hack still works even if uc_product_cart_display changes at some point
* in the future.
$display_item = uc_product_cart_display($item);
// Get the translations, if any.
$node = node_load($item->nid);
global $language;
$translations = translation_node_get_translations($node->tnid);
if ($translations[$language->language]) {
// Reminder: NEVER override the nid. That is what causes the bugs!
$tnode = node_load($translations[$language->language]->nid);
$display_item["title"]["#value"] = node_access('view', $tnode) ? l($tnode->title, 'node/'. $tnode->nid) : check_plain($tnode->title);
$display_item["image"]["#value"] = uc_product_get_picture($tnode->nid, 'cart');
return $display_item;
After reloading the Custom module at Administer > Site building > Modules, the cart should behave properly when switching languages. As well, adding a product to the cart in one language, switching languages, then adding it again should not result in two different products being added to the cart. Instead, the quantity of the product will increase by 1.
Credit for this solution goes to user Docc at Ubercart forums, who posted the code sample (see reference 3)
Problem: Ubercart does not localize products during checkout
This one was a bit trickier to solve, since there's no real elegant way to trick ubercart into localizing the products while using the standard checkout pane. As a result, we will have to disable the stock checkout pane and use the replacement provided by the code below instead (the replacement pane is called "Your order").
* Implementation of hook_checkout_pane().
function custommod_checkout_pane() {
/* Replacement for standard cart contents pane. Although hook_cart_item() can
* be used to localize the checkout pane, then we get into trouble while
* trying to localize the cart display (see the comments above). The best way
* that I can think of to work around this is to disable the stock cart
* contents pane and enable this one instead.
$panes[] = array(
'id' => 'custommod_cart',
'callback' => 'custommod_checkout_pane_custommod_cart',
'title' => t('Your order'),
'desc' => t('Display the (localized) contents of a customer\'s shopping cart.'),
'weight' => 2,
'process' => TRUE,
'collapsible' => FALSE,
return $panes;
* Callback for our implementation of hook_checkout_pane()
function custommod_checkout_pane_custommod_cart($op, &$arg1, $arg2) {
/* The code below is copied from uc_checkout_pane_cart() and is slightly
* modified to localize the cart contents before displaying it. If you are
* using this, you need to keep an eye on uc_checkout_pane_cart() to make sure
* that if there is an important change or bugfix, you make the same change
* here.
switch ($op) {
case 'view':
$contents['cart_review_table'] = array(
'#value' => theme('cart_review_table'),
'#weight' => variable_get('uc_pane_cart_field_cart_weight', 2),
return array('contents' => $contents, 'next-button' => FALSE);
case 'review':
$items = uc_cart_get_contents();
$output = '
';
$context = array(
'revision' => 'themed',
'type' => 'cart_item',
'subject' => array(),
global $language;
foreach ($items as $item) {
$node = node_load($item->nid);
$translations = translation_node_get_translations($node->tnid);
if ($translations[$language->language]) {
$tnode = node_load($translations[$language->language]->nid);
} else {
$tnode = $node;
$desc = check_plain($tnode->title) . uc_product_get_description($item);
$price_info = array(
'price' => $item->price,
'qty' => $item->qty,
$context['subject'] = array(
'cart' => $items,
'cart_item' => $item,
'node' => $tnode,
$output .= '
'. $item->qty .'×	'. $desc
.'	'. uc_price($price_info, $context) .'
';
$output .= '
';
$review[] = $output;
return $review;
return $result;
Thanks to user totsubo at Ubercart forums for helping me test this part of the module!
See also
- Information about localized taxonomy in thread Multiple language Ubercart website on the Ubercart support forums
- Lots of good information at a thread titled i18n issues i D6/UC2 for Multilingual sites on the Ubercart support forums
- Method for product synchronization was based on a small code sample by Docc at Drupal node #456358
Product attributes/options/adjustments
First of all I have to thank you for your contribution.
I was wondering how to implement your solution. I made a new module with your code and I enabled the module. But if I translate a product it doesn't synchronize the attributes and options. I guess I'm doing something wrong :)
Can you help me on implementing?
Thx in advance,
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This works
Thank you mm_mike - I can confirm that this works perfectly. If anyone else is looking to implement this on their site, just remember that the function name should be yourmodule_nodeapi since the hook it uses is hook_nodeapi.
To the original author - I'm sure it would help a lot of people if this code was added to the main body of the article somewhere.
Thank you to you both, the article and comments have save me a lot of time!
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translated "Add to cart" in product nodes
Excellent wrap up mate!
I've got an addition - to translate "Add to cart" for product nodes (both teasers and full view) you also need to make the t() trick in uc_product_add_to_cart_form() for the uc_product_add_to_cart_text variable
...'#value' => t(variable_get('uc_product_add_to_cart_text', 'Add to cart'))...
Cheers and 10x for this article!
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Checkout product list does not localize - solution
Great article!!
I am using UC 1.5-2.10 and found that the 'review' switch option in custommod_checkout_pane_custommod_cart() was not called. The only options called are 'view' and 'theme'.
To still be able to localize the product list, I took some of the code in the 'review' branch of custommod_checkout_pane_custommod_cart() and created my own theming function in my template.php file. The code below is an adjusted version of the theme_cart_review_table() function in ubercart/uc_cart/uc_cart_checkout_pane.inc. With this solution, I did not need to create a new pane 'Your order'.
Before this function is used by UC/D6, I did a 'clear cache' and visited the template admin screen to refresh everything.
* Format the cart contents table on the checkout page.
* @param $show_subtotal
* TRUE or FALSE indicating if you want a subtotal row displayed in the table.
* @return
* The HTML output for the cart review table.
* @ingroup themeable
function la2010_cart_review_table($show_subtotal = TRUE) {
$subtotal = 0;
// Set up table header.
$header = array(
array('data' => t('Qty'), 'class' => 'qty'),
array('data' => t('Products'), 'class' => 'products'),
array('data' => t('Price'), 'class' => 'price'),
$context = array();
// Set up table rows.
$contents = uc_cart_get_contents();
foreach ($contents as $item) {
$price_info = array(
'price' => $item->price,
'qty' => $item->qty,
global $language;
$node = node_load($item->nid);
$translations = translation_node_get_translations($node->tnid);
if ($translations[$language->language]) {
$tnode = node_load($translations[$language->language]->nid);
} else {
$tnode = $node;
$context['revision'] = 'altered';
$context['type'] = 'cart_item';
$context['subject'] = array(
'cart' => $contents,
'cart_item' => $item,
'node' => $tnode,
$total = uc_price($price_info, $context);
$subtotal += $total;
$description = check_plain($tnode->title) . uc_product_get_description($item);
// Remove node from context to prevent the price from being altered.
$context['revision'] = 'themed-original';
$context['type'] = 'amount';
$rows[] = array(
array('data' => t('@qty×', array('@qty' => $item->qty)), 'class' => 'qty'),
array('data' => $description, 'class' => 'products'),
array('data' => uc_price($total, $context), 'class' => 'price'),
// Add the subtotal as the final row.
if ($show_subtotal) {
$context = array(
'revision' => 'themed-original',
'type' => 'amount',
$rows[] = array(
'data' => array(array('data' => '' . t('Subtotal:') . ' ' . uc_price($subtotal, $context), 'colspan' => 4, 'class' => 'subtotal')),
'class' => 'subtotal',
return theme('table', $header, $rows, array('class' => 'cart-review'));
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SYnchronizing fields in UC 1.5-2.10
I came to the conclusion that the fields that need synchronization are a bit different. The length, width, and height fields have different names. The custommod_i18nsync_fields_alter() function needs the following array:
$fields['uc_products']['#options'] = array (
'model' => 'SKU',
'list_price' => 'List Price',
'cost' => 'Cost',
'sell_price' => 'Sell Price',
'weight' => 'Weight',
'weight_units' => 'Weight Units',
'length' => 'Length',
'width' => 'Width',
'height' => 'Height',
'length_units' => 'Length Units',
'pkg_qty' => 'Quantity',
'default_qty' => 'Default quantity to add to cart'
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Dimension Fields
I am using Ubercart 2.2 & the dimension doesn't sync, I found that the variable names for length, width and height are different from your codes.
So for everybody got problem w/ sync in dimension fields, pls try to change below code in custommod.module from
'length' => 'Length',
'width' => 'Width',
'height' => 'Height',
'dim_length' => 'Length',
'dim_width' => 'Width',
'dim_height' => 'Height',
Enjoy :)
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is the closing "?>" tag required?
This is one of the grestest post I've come across. Being a one-year-old drupal developper & not a programmer (I can barely read & write code), this kind of information in Manna from heaven! Makes me feel smart. That's how good it is. KUDOS TO ALL!
I see that most .module files do not include the closing "?>" tag.
I read it's part of best practices.
Is it required for the custommod module listed above or not?
Thanks a million!
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Invoice email does not translate line item section
Hi again, it's been a while!
I've just noticed that the invoice emails that UC sends out are mostly translated but the section that lists the products (the line items section) is not translated and the product titles are always in English.
Is there a solution for this?
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Products stock syncronization...
I'm wrong or your code don't let product STOCK syncronization?
Regards and thanks a lot for your post
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cart/checkout not localized
Firstly - thank you so much for centralising all this great information and advice. It is proving to be really helpful.
I have implemented the code you list above but seem to be having a problem with some (not all) of the cart-related code. Basically, the '/cart' localizes correctly. I can cross between languages, and it shows the other version of the item in the cart properly (i.e. translated). I can add the same item to the cart in both languages and it displays the sum of the two separate additions in the selected languages as one item. So that bit is spot on.
When I move to the 'cart/checkout' page the cart item list is not translated into the associated language, or in my case, it just stays in English. If I then advance to the 'cart'checkout/review' page however, it is localized correctly.
I am using UC 2.4, btw.
Just wondered which function I should be looking at to try and find the solution to my problem. I will keep looking in the iterim but if you could point me in the right direction it would be greated appreciated.
Regards and thanks
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I Had Enabled Custom Pane
Thanks for your answer.
I had enabled the custom pane, hence at the '/cart' stage it had a correctly translated cart. The '/cart/checkout' stage it dropped back into the 'untranslated' cart and then as I move through to the '/cart/checkout/review' it is translated again. This does seem strange to me as all views of the cart use the same function to perform the translation, no? I did also echo the language to the screen to see if there was anything strange going on there either but there wasn't - the correct language was identified on the 'untranslated' cart page.
This issue seems to be only happening for me (assumption) so I will go back and check my custom module to make sure it is identical to the contents on this page and report back the results.
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Hi Adam, I got exactly the
Hi Adam,
I got exactly the same problem. have u figured out the problem?
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Checkout page translation problem is solved! =)
Hi Stewart and Adam,
add the following code to the template.php could checkout page problem.
* Fix for ubercart translation problem in the checkout page
* Reference: http://www.firewing1.com/node/27
function phptemplate_cart_review_table($show_subtotal = TRUE) {
$subtotal = 0;
// Set up table header.
$header = array(
array('data' => t('Qty3'), 'class' => 'qty'),
array('data' => t('Products3'), 'class' => 'products'),
array('data' => t('Price3'), 'class' => 'price'),
$context = array();
// Set up table rows.
$contents = uc_cart_get_contents();
global $language;
foreach ($contents as $item) {
$node = node_load($item->nid);
$translations = translation_node_get_translations($node->tnid);
if ($translations[$language->language]) {
$tnode = node_load($translations[$language->language]->nid);
} else {
$tnode = $node;
$price_info = array(
'price' => $item->price,
'qty' => $item->qty,
$context['revision'] = 'altered';
$context['type'] = 'cart_item';
$context['subject'] = array(
'cart' => $contents,
'cart_item' => $item,
//'node' => node_load($item->nid),
'node' => node_load($tnode),
$total = uc_price($price_info, $context);
$subtotal += $total;
//$description = check_plain($item->title) . uc_product_get_description($item);
$description = check_plain($tnode->title) . uc_product_get_description($item);
// Remove node from context to prevent the price from being altered.
$context['revision'] = 'themed-original';
$context['type'] = 'amount';
$rows[] = array(
array('data' => t('@qty×', array('@qty' => $item->qty)), 'class' => 'qty'),
array('data' => $description, 'class' => 'products'),
array('data' => uc_price($total, $context), 'class' => 'price'),
// Add the subtotal as the final row.
if ($show_subtotal) {
$context = array(
'revision' => 'themed-original',
'type' => 'amount',
$rows[] = array(
'data' => array(array('data' => '' . t('Subtotal:') . ' ' . uc_price($subtotal, $context), 'colspan' => 4, 'class' => 'subtotal')),
'class' => 'subtotal',
return theme('table', $header, $rows, array('class' => 'cart-review'));
and Stewart, thanks again for your great work.
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Untranslated cart when $op euqlas 'view'
OK, a little more information. Within the 'custommod_checkout_pane_custommod_cart' function their is a case structure. When the $op variable equals 'view' an array of cart contents is returned for theming. It is the contents of this array that are not translated. When $op equals 'review' it runs the code that does the translation etc. and that all works fine.
Any pointers for me?
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Options translation
Hi, and thx for your contributions.
In order to get options translated i've added t() here and there in uc_attribute.module around $option->name.
But I still cant find my string while performing a searching in 'translate interface'. No match.
Would it be possible to manually add the translation in some .po ? And which one?
This problem is very accurate about options. I dont really know Drupal code so I would be very glad if any idea come up to go around these intranslatable darn options . With code, module or $$ or anything...
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Please firewing1, could you
Please firewing1, could you lead me on this way ? Which hook would you add in custommod for options and attributes translations. I'm beginning with hook, so...
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Tried with no success
Ubercart - 2.4.
I have tried the first issue following your instructions and run into this thing -
When editing my English product I have only a cck with the ILS (Hebrew) curency symbol, so after finishing edit and save I see the price in ILS and not in USD format.
When going to admin/store/settings/store/edit/format it config to ILS.
I didn't understand what am I sepose to do.
Thank you!
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UC Shema request
Hi everybody
I'm silently following along this capital threads about internationalisation. I'd like to congratulate everyone who contributes to this great step for humanity, despite the overlooking of Ubercar team for the matter. I'm planning to go to Drupalcon Paris on june the 18th, and I long to be there!
I'm using from a long time custommod which saved me hours (I've got 8 langages).
I cannot enough emphasize how this problem is crucial. For Drupal 6 in Europe, firstly. We're going to need more and more to deal with a pretty f. bunch of langages and Taxes. Only for France, at the very minimum level, we've got a lot of Turkishes, and Chineses living here. Without talking of our million of Portugueses, and a few other of Arabians. The latters are here for 30 years and pretty well talking and reading French, so they can buy online. The formers, my neighbours for the most, doesn't even speak French! Sometimes, one in a couple talks French, the other relying on him. Sometimes children fill in administrative papers, sometimes they ask me (I'm native from Paris).
And I think there is great opportunity for Drupal Webdesigners to get some job. Others e-commerce like Prestashop, OsCommerce, Magento, etc, really suck. For example, Drupal is the only one to be able to cleanly manage downloadable products, with multi SKUs. Without talking of SEO.
So translating products, attributes, and options is essential. But I've got in this direction another huge problem.
I'm planning to sell Websites to restaurants. Some have 50 products. It's long, manually. Chinese menus, contains easily 500-1000 products! It'd be a nightmare, in only 2 langages.
The entire process would involve :
- creation of a setup profile
- whichone loads a full dump SQL schema of a website
- then importing a csv of UC formatted products, with their options and languages.
In order to do this, I used Node Import. It creates pretty well Products. I didnt try to plug alltogether attributes, options, translations. I'm beginning...
In this direction, I'd like to understand the UC shema.
I've tried to recreate attributes and options tables, which seems to work. But I cannot read those mean SQL queries that are spitted by dev module when you add options to a product. Specially about cache table...
It would be great if one could begin to build the schema involved in the creation and translation of product nodes, product classes, and product kits...
I imagine it could help everyone to contribute.
(Maybe UC shema is published ? But I didnt find...)
It must be possible to create a special thread for this. We could use Excel...
I thing of things like that
uc_attributes |
aid |
name |
... |
------------ -----|
with some arrows between tables...
It would really be great...
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Patch pending for catalog issues
Just thought I would mention to people that there is a patch pending for the catalog issues - http://drupal.org/node/951760
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Dear Firewing1,
Thanks for all the great work. I would love to use these solutions, there is one problem though...
I am working on a webshop using ubercart, in 3 languages. Since I need stock management, I consider using Language Sections as the only way out. Did you manage to solve the stock management problem with the Internationalization module yet?
Thanks in advance for your answer!!
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"Problem: Taxonomy terms are untranslated in Catalog block "
thank's a lot for this explanation !
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Skip the Resolution. Make it a Goal!
You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.
-C.S. Lewis
Welcome to 2014!
Another year is done, and a new one begins! And what are we all doing today?
Recovering from staying up all night and.....making goals.
Goals for ourselves, our children, how we use our money, what we do at work and at play.... You name it, and people are setting goals about it today.
In the next few days we'll hear and read story after story about New Year's Resolutions. In a month (or sooner!), we'll see stories about how those resolutions failed. It's enough to keep a person from trying!
Failed resolutions have a few things in common:
- They are driven by emotion.
- They're made impulsively.
- They are dramatic (big) in scope and effect.
- They target an issue that is complex.
Goals, on the other hand, are thoughtfully crafted steps that lead to long-term change for the better. Goals are the conscious beginnings of habits, or grooves.
Like resolutions, goals have things in common. Successful goals:
- Are 99.9% achievable when you make them. You can see how to be successful. You can taste success when you begin.
- Are discrete. A goal focuses on one action or change. for example, "I will walk 20 minutes at lunch three days a week"; or "will practice good posture when working at my desk."; or "I will eat a piece of fresh fruit with lunch every day."
- Have a clear beginning and end.
- Include a plan: what day, what time, and with whom you will take action.
- Are easy to measure. Success - or not quite success - is clear.
For parents of children with disabilities, the concept of setting goals is a snap. We've done goal setting since our kids were born. The beauty of this is that you can do it yourself. It doesn't require a team. Your goals are your own. Working with a partner to reach individual goals is a good idea. You may even have the same ones.
Goals are also good for our kids! Especially around health related changes. Parents take note: your child - regardless of age - needs to choose their own goal! That choice gives the decision power and ownership. That's essential for success. Our role is a support role. We support them in creating a goal and not a resolution without being a wet blanket for their dream. (That last part is the hardest for parents, I understand!)
What does it mean to provide that guidance so a goal is reachable? It means using questions to help your child make an informed choice. The hardest part for families is not leading the choice so it's what we want them to do!
Here's an example of how a conversation might go for wellness related goals:
Mom: Suzy, we're all choosing one thing to do to improve our health this year! I am going to work on walking because I need more activity. Your father is going to improve his food choices. Aunt Sally is working on her diabetes. And Uncle John is making a plan to quit smoking. Is there something you would like to do be more healthy?
Suzy: Yes!
Mom: What do you want to do?
Suzy: I want to look like Miley Cyrus!
Mom: Hmmm. (thinking that's not the role model you had in mind). What is healthy about Miley Cyrus?
Suzy: She's sexy!
Mom: Hmmm. So what's healthy about being sexy?
Suzy: She's skinny.
Mom: Ok. So what you're saying is that you want to work on your weight?
Suzy: Yes!
Mom: Ok. What do you think you need to do?
Suzy: I don't know!
Mom: That's Ok. Do you want me to help you figure out your choices?
Suzy: Yes!
And that's where you can start creating a list of options. This Mom was great at avoiding the temptation to point out that looking like Miley Cyrus may not be a possibility. That part is not important. It will come with time. However, you want to squash any idea that the outcome will be that your daughter is swinging around on a wrecking ball. Instead, focus on the health behaviors that are necessary to be in shape to be able to dance for hours and so on.
The truth is that working through weekly goals is the easy part, though tedious. The hard part is choosing a benchmark that is realistic to begin with. I have every faith you can do it!
To help you on your way, I'm offering a goal setting worksheet updated from Activity 10 in my book, The Down Syndrome Nutrition Handbook. Click here to download your copy.
May your 2014 be a healthful one!
A Little Bit of Fit
I went to visit one of the people I work with in October. I'm lucky to get to see her at her place once a year. Most of the time we talk on the phone, over FaceTime or by text message. She's taught me far more than I've taught her, I think – isn't' that always the case?
This trip my goal was to introduce a new tool: The FitBit flex.
I didn't prepare her in any way for this purchase. I was completely prepared for her to flat out reject the idea. I had done some research on the different trackers and chose this one for it's simplicity and water resistance. It also pairs nicely with an iPhone and the LoseIt App, both things she uses well. But my preferences don't matter. What matters is her choice.
Off we went to Best Buy to look them over. She looked at different styles. She liked the colors of the FitBit Zip until I told her that it goes on your waist and could be forgotten and washed. (This is something I would do, without a doubt. I've also flushed my phone in the past…) In the end, she chose the slate FitBit Flex and I followed suit.
After making dinner, we watched a movie while I tried to get hers all set up. She got a few good laughs as I talked to the computer. By the end of the night we were all set and sync'd. We also set up a bonus: We're FitBit Friends, which in my mind is like doing a pinky swear.
I honestly thought this was going to be enlightening. I knew she was more active just to get through each day than people realized. What I didn't know was how much more active! Let's just say…she is crushing me in the steps category! Maybe being able to drive isn't such a good thing?
I've also found a number of really useful things this device does:
- When you reach a goal, it explodes with vibrations on your wrist. The first time it did this I thought it was broken.
- It tracks sleep quality. Ok, it's not as good as a sleep study. But it does give an idea of how much a person is tossing and turning, which is useful.
- Unlike her parents, I know when she gets up and goes to bed. And I'm not telling, because she knows the same thing about me! (Grin). It's part of our support agreement.
- It's a great silent alarm. You can set the alarm daily – for many different times – or have it repeat on a cycle. I actually like this better than my clock. No one else is bothered by my need to get up. I am now using it to remind me when I need to wind up my work for the day. The possibilities are endless!
- The app is fun. I can cheer, taunt, or send a brief message to my FitBit Buddies.
- I earn badges on the FitBit site for doing good things.
- It tracks different levels of activity (light, moderate, heavy), giving me an idea of what needs to be changed.
- It takes just 15 minutes to charge, once every five days.
- It goes in the shower just fine!
I have to say it's a success. My friend is enjoying it also. She likes knowing that she's crushing me. From a health coaching and parenting standpoint, it's a great tool. You may need to help get thing set up and teach how to turn it on to sleep mode, but after a little coaching, it's quite easy to use.
What I like most is that it gives everyone some data to work with and is much easier than a pedometer. One can focus on increasing the number of "very active" minutes, number of steps in a day, distance walked in a day, or the calories in/calories out equation.
One of the great things about using the FitBit is that no denying what activity is or is not done. Heed this advice: Take a neutral tone. Discover what your child's fitness level is (and yours) together. You may find he is far more active than you think (and you are not!)! Take advantage of the newness to focus on meeting goals rather than focusing on what is not happening. And when a goal is met, get a new color!
One thing: The newer FitBit Force is also a possibility. I don't have hands on experience with it. I am tempted to buy one though – it tells time. Yep, your water-resistent activity tracker can also be your watch.
We're looking for more friends to connect with. In fact, we're particularly interested in growing a circle of friends of folks with Down syndrome who are using one of the FitBit family of devices. Join us! We can cheer each other, taunt each other, and learn from each other.
Have a GREAT Thanksgiving!
Adventures of a "Picky Eater's" Mom
As a toddler, my "picky eater" would not let his fries touch the ketchup until he dipped them. In elementary school, he shunned my healthy tuna sandwich because his friends picked on him. As a teenager, new foods were considered with great caution and barely tasted. Dinners were dismissed unless they were ones he chose.
My "picky eater" had a mild case in comparison to many, but the issues were the same. Food was about sensory acceptance and needed to be understood before tasted...and
tasted...and tasted yet again before accepted. He inspired me to dig into the research around sensory issues related to food choice and apply it in a practical way.
I applied the "trust model" for eating. He learned that there was no requirement to eat something. He learned there would always be something he would eat at a meal. He learned it's Ok to leave food on the plate (I learned to quietly fume about how much got left behind). I learned to create meals with his preferences in mind. He learned I was listening. Somewhere along the way he learned to be a food explorer.
Now as an adult, his palate is continually expanding. Why, he's eating some nuts now! But the best part is this: he invites me on food adventures. It's great fun.
On a recent visit (he lives in Texas at the moment), we had some time to fill before leaving for the airport. What did we do? We went on a food adventure!
My son had spied a shop he wanted to try, called The Teahouse, where one can order different types of teas (blended, iced, cream tea, and tea with tapioca). We walked to the mall and hit the food court to try it out.
We spied the menu, and both knew we were most intrigued by the tapioca tea, which I now understand is called "bubble tea." After pondering the overwhelming number of options, he chose the honeydew cream tea with tapioca. I chose hazelnut cream tea with tapioca. We both chose unblended.
At this point I want to remind you all of the sensory stages to accepting a new food. Everyone goes through them. Some have more steps to each stage. Here's how it went for me:
Step one: existence.
Step two: smell.
Step three: appearance.
Check! (or so I thought) We took pictures of the drinks, including the lids with Japanese writing. I did wonder about the diameter of the straw that came with it (wider than a Slurpee straw), but it looked fine.
Step four: taste.
Check? A small sip reveals it's a little too sweet, not enough hazelnut.
Step four-and-a-half: mouth feel.
ACK! Complete freak out. There are weird, huge globs in my mouth. They come at random moments as I suck on the straw and catch me by surprise.
It's a little freaky. I don't like it.
Jump back to step three: appearance.
OMG! There are black things going up my son's straw!
OMG! They're all over the bottom of the cup! They're in MY cup! They're in MY straw!
I thought tapioca was clear. It is in the pudding I make. They look like bugs! OMG!
We're drinking BUGS! (As my brother knows, three OMG's is cause for alarm)
Step-five: eat.
Who freaked first? Not the picky eater! He drank more than half of his, analyzing how it tasted, how it made him feel, and so on. Meanwhile I kept hopping around like he was drinking actual bugs and making freaky girl noises. This made him laugh and drink more.
I'm not sure, but it may be the first time my son has seen me freak out over a food before him. What's the lesson? Trust and taste works. Teach and trust your picky eaters to listen to their body. Then add touch and taste to your family's food experiences. These are important life skills. When they grow up, you may find you have a food explorer on your hands!
Oh, and "bubble tea" isn't for me.
Celebrating Down Syndrome Month: Pay With a Tweet!
The nation – and world – will be filled with all sorts of community events to celebrate the blessings people with Down syndrome bring to our lives on this typically unexpected
journey. To celebrate, I will be offering a different product for a unique price: Pay with a Tweet.
This edition's Pay with a TweetProduct is My Tasting Journal: Keeping Track of Foods I Try. This E-Book, valued at $9.95, is designed to promote tasting and learning about the sensory components to food using all your senses and universal design for learning. It's a nutrition activity. It's a writing activity. It's a literacy activity (visual and print). It's a science activity. Reduce behaviorally selective eating through learning!
All I ask is that you Pay with a Tweet. How does this work? Click here to download My Tasting Journal: Keeping Track of Foods I Try. You will be directed to a download page and given instructions to pay for your purchase by sending out a tweet, posting on Facebook, or posting an update on LinkedIn.
Get your copy of My Tasting Journal: Keeping Track of Foods I Try for the price of a tweet.


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WAC Lighting Recessed Lighting
Recessed Trims
A recessed trim is the visible portion of the recessed light that is visible within your room. WAC Lighting makes high quality recessed trims which can blend into your ceiling or boldly stand out in a variety of styles and finishes to fit your needs.
Recessed Housings
Recessed housings are completely recessed into the ceiling and contains the electrical components to power your recessed light. WAC Lighting offers recessed housings to fit your needs, whether you need a new construction or remodel housing, IC or Non-IC rated, LED or low voltage, you will find the recessed housing you need.
Suitable for use in any room, recessed lighting is a discreet way to create ambiance as well as functional light within a room. Recessed lighting is installed directly into the ceiling of your home, creating a clean and modern look. Choose from WAC Lighting's wide variety of recessed light options, including low voltage and LED options, to customize your ceiling lighting to meet your situation's ideal look and function.
- What do I need to purchase to make a complete WAC recessed ceiling light?
In order to obtain a complete WAC recessed lighting fixture, you will need to purchase a recessed housing and a recessed trim. Alternatively, WAC Lighting offers a 2 inch LED recessed light kit, which has a housing and trim integrated together, requiring you to purchase a single item for a complete ceiling light.
Start with determining whether the housing is for new construction (new work) or an existing application (old work). If there is drywall installed then you need an old work housing. If there is no drywall then you need a new work housing. Secondly, decide if you need a IC (Insulation Contact) or Non-IC rated housing. If there will be insulation within three inches of the fixture, make sure the housing you choose is IC rated. (Some building codes require IC rated housings regardless of whether there will be insulation contact or not, check your local code to ensure compliance.)
WAC Lighting's MultiSpot recessed lighting are best used in a situation that requires adjustable lighting, as each light in a multiple spot is individually adjustable. Generally, they are best suited for retail and commercial situations, however, they could fit in perfect in a large room in your home.


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Biological Clock Dysfunction in Optic Nerve Hypoplasia
Identification and Treatment of Biological Clock Dysfunction in Optic Nerve Hypoplasia
Lead Sponsor: Yale University
Collaborator: Children's Hospital Los Angeles
|Yale University
|Brief Summary
Background: Optic Nerve Hypoplasia (ONH) is a leading cause of blindness in children. For unclear reasons, the incidence of ONH is increasing, with ONH affecting about 1 in 10,000 live-born infants. In addition to visual deficits, ONH is associated with varying degrees of hypopituitarism, developmental delay, brain malformations and obesity. Although genetic mutations have been rarely observed to result in ONH, the causes of ONH are largely not known. In limited anatomical observations, the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) located in the anterior hypothalamus, which generate circadian rhythms, have been observed to be abnormal in children with ONH. Thus, children with ONH may have biological clock dysfunction.
In collaborative studies with Dr. Mark Borchert of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), we have recently discovered that one-half of children with ONH have grossly abnormal sleep-wake patterns, as assessed by actigraphy. Although not known for children with ONH, abnormal sleep-wake patterns have been observed to be associated with neurocognitive impairment and obesity. We also observe that nocturnal melatonin administration can improve abnormal sleep-wake cycles in these children, raising the possibility that it will be possible to treat abnormal rhythmicity in children with ONH.
|Detailed Description
Objectives and Hypotheses. Our objectives are to define the scope and problems related to biological clock disorders in children with ONH and to develop effective treatments for this condition. Based on our observations, we hypothesize: (1) Daily rest-activity patterns and sleep will be abnormal in up to 50% of children with ONH. (2) It is possible to identify risk factors for abnormal circadian system function and sleep problems in ONH. (3) Nocturnal melatonin administration will improve abnormal sleep and activity patterns in children with ONH.
Design: These studies will involve collaborative efforts between Yale University and Dr. Mark Borchert of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, who follows the largest population of children with ONH in the world. We will study children ages 2-10 years with documented ONH using standard criteria. Based on these criteria, we have more than 100 eligible patients.
To test our hypotheses, we will: (1) examine expressed rhythmicity in children with ONH. These studies will use actigraphy, sleep questionnaires, and assessment of melatonin secretory profiles. (2) We will correlate hypothalamic anatomical abnormalities and the degree endocrine dysfunction with sleep and expressed rhythmicity. (3) We will test if short-term administration of melatonin improves sleep-wake patterns in children with abnormally-expressed rhythmicity.
Potential Impact: Our preliminary data raise the possibility that children with ONH will have circadian system dysfunction resulting in abnormal rhythmicity and sleep. However, to date there have been no formal attempts to identify children with ONH who are at risk for such problems, nor have there been efforts aimed at developing potential treatments. The proposed prospective clinical study will represent an important attempt to identify a group of children with circadian system dysfunction.
At the completion of this study, we anticipate having determined risk factors for circadian system dysfunction in children with ONH. Insights gained from these studies should lead to the development of new approaches for treating circadian clock lesions in ONH, with the hope of improving the well-being of circadian system function in the boys and girls with this condition.
|Overall Status
|Unknown status
|Start Date
|October 2008
|Completion Date
|September 2011
|Primary Completion Date
|September 2011
|Early Phase 1
|Study Type
|Primary Outcome
Intervention Type: Dietary Supplement
Intervention Name: Melatonin
Description: Oral administration before bed. We will test two doses (0.5 or 3.0 mg/m2. 6 week duration.)
Arm Group Label: 1
Intervention Type: Dietary Supplement
Intervention Name: Placebo Comparator
Description: Oral administration before bed. 6 week duration.
Arm Group Label: 2
Inclusion Criteria: - Confirmed diagnosis of ONH (Diagnosis will be confirmed by ocular fundus photography.Disc-macula distance 0.35 or below. In eyes without ONH, the DD/DM ratio is greater than 0.3581.) - Ages 2-10 years - Ability to ambulate independently - Under care of endocrinologist if on pituitary hormone replacement therapy. Exclusion Criteria: - Non-ambulatory - Active malignancy - Cardio-respiratory disorder
Inclusion Criteria:
- Confirmed diagnosis of ONH (Diagnosis will be confirmed by ocular fundus photography.Disc-macula distance 0.35 or below. In eyes without ONH, the DD/DM ratio is greater than 0.3581.)
- Ages 2-10 years
- Ability to ambulate independently
- Under care of endocrinologist if on pituitary hormone replacement therapy.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Non-ambulatory
- Active malignancy
- Cardio-respiratory disorder
Gender: All
Minimum Age: 2 Years
Maximum Age: 10 Years
Healthy Volunteers: No
|Overall Official
|Location Countries
United States
|Verification Date
February 2011
|Responsible Party
Name Title: Esther Nakamura-Reyes
Organization: Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles
|Has Expanded Access
|Number Of Arms
|Arm Group
Label: 1
Type: Active Comparator
Description: Individuals with abnormal rhythmicity will be treated with melatonin to assess if sleep patterns are improved.
Label: 2
Type: Placebo Comparator
|Study Design Info
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)


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Matt Anderson, 30, of West Islip finally gets chance in NHL
Matt Anderson never lost hope of making it to the National Hockey League, even after he turned 30, which is an almost unthinkably advanced age for a rookie. "I think age is just a number," he said.
There are times when he still feels as if he is 18, as he was when he graduated from West Islip High School and went off to play junior hockey for the New England Coyotes. On Tuesday, his heart felt the same exhilaration it did when he was 4, skating on a pond in Brightwaters, or 10, when he began taking serious hockey instruction at The Rinx in Hauppauge.
It was on Tuesday that he really did make it, becoming the oldest Devil to make his NHL debut since 1989, but who's counting? Yesterday, before he earned his first assist, during a 5-4 overtime loss to the Islanders, he still felt like a kid; a happy kid -- no matter how long this call-up from the minors lasts.
As he prepared for Thursday night's game, he still felt like a kid, a happy kid -- no matter how long this call-up from the minors lasts.
"There have been a few bumps in the road, but that's what makes you appreciate this that much more," said the forward, who endured season-ending surgeries in his first two years at the University of Massachusetts, two concussions as a pro and the occasional internal question about why the heck he kept hanging on.
He had no goals or assists against the Bruins, but the game was far from pointless. "It healed a lot of wounds, that's for sure," he said. "In the second period, I started to settle down. You get back to, 'OK, I've done this before. It's my 352nd professional hockey game. At this stage, if I don't know what I'm doing, something is wrong.' "
Rosemarie and Thomas, his parents, drove up to Boston from West Islip to watch, just as they used to drive him to his P.A.L. games.
"It was fabulous," said Rosemarie, who helped support her son's hockey by working in her husband's dry cleaning business and driving a school bus. "There's just something that comes from deep in his soul. He kept pushing and pushing to follow a dream that he has had all his life."
Said Thomas, "There were so many emotions. We had to hold back tears the whole time."
They both recalled that a neighbor had given skates to Matt and how father and son went on the pond. "We just kind of picked it up together," Matt said.
Thomas would pick him up at the bus stop after kindergarten class and they would go to Ice Time, a rink in Babylon. "We'd hope nobody was there in the public session so I could bring my stick and puck on the ice," Matt said.
His dad credits his son's hockey coaches, including former Islander Gerry Hart and Aleksey Nikiforov.
Nikiforov is a former pro in the former Soviet Union who has guided Anderson's former youth teammates, Mike Komisarek (also of West Islip), Chris Higgins and Matt Gilroy, into the NHL. "For the last 10 years," Anderson said, "he has been my right-hand man."
Now Anderson works with conditioning coach Frank Dolan in Islip.
"I'm really starting to see some gains, even at this stage of my career," the rookie said. "At 30 years old, I still feel like I'm gaining a little extra pop and a little extra jump on the ice."
Age is just a number, as Thomas Anderson can attest. His wife was waiting for him to drive to Prudential Center Thursday. The NHL rookie's dad, soon to turn 60, was on the ice in Bethpage, playing a pickup hockey game.


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ALBANY, N.Y. -- State health officials say 425 people in New York have received steroid shots suspected in a U.S. meningitis outbreak. Department of Health spokesman Jeffrey Hammond says the 425 New York people are out of the estimated 13,000 nationwide who received the dosages for pain. There are no reported meningitis cases in New York. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's nationwide count of meningitis cases reached 105 on Monday, including eight deaths. A ninth death was reported late Monday by a Nashville, Tenn., hospital related to shipments of the steroid from the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts. The CDC last week said the New York tainted shipments went to Dr. Sunil Butani in Mineola, Obosa Medical Services in Mount Vernon and Rochester Brain and Spine in Rochester.
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When Mickey Rourke dismisses his own film as "terrible" more than a month before its release, smart people would simply take the man at his word and move on. Then there are those who will watch "Passion Play," wincing the whole way through.
Rourke stars as Nate Poole, a once famous trumpet player who falls in love with a beautiful winged circus freak (Megan Fox). He helps her escape from the clutches of the mean old barker (Rhys Ifans), only to have a gangster (Bill Murray) whom he's wronged try to steal her away. It's even more tortured than it sounds.
Mitch Glazer, who's penned such films as "Scrooged," "Three of Hearts" and "The Recruit," wrote "Passion Play," which is also his directorial debut. Despite a great cast, that also includes Glazer's wife, Kelly Lynch, the film is a mess. Aside from a few moments filled with rich colors, much of the film looks not just low-budget, but cheap, with a strangely frequent use of green screens, even for moments as mundane as sitting on a rock in the desert or standing on a rooftop. And the framing on some of the shots is maddening, with people repeatedly cropped out of the frame.
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Forgiving Glazer for his miscues behind the camera would be a lot easier if the script was up to snuff, but from the mysterious band of Indians clad in all white marching through the desert to the often ponderously bad dialogue, there's no safe harbor.
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Nobody suffers more at the hands of "Passion Play" than Megan Fox, who was smirkingly derided by Rourke as "the greatest actress I've ever worked with." In addition the awful words Glazer puts in her mouth, she spends most of the film opposite Rourke, who positively phones it in, making his bizarre turn in "The Expendables" seem nuanced by comparison. He's not gonna be able to rely on his Mickey Rourke-ness for much longer.
Bill Murray is woefully miscast as gangster Happy Shannon. Murray's genius succeeds when well-adjusted people surround him, but his dry sardonic take is rendered toothless when he's opposite low-energy misery. And seeing him styled to look like Colin Firth in "A Single Man" is beyond jarring.
Glazer clearly set out to craft a noir fairytale about redemption, but he misses completely the tone and feel, and what we get instead is a disjointed hodgepodge of tough guys, hot dames and violence. Just a few days after calling "Passion Play" terrible, Rourke tried to recant the sentiment and offer an apology to both Glazer, but the fact is, he got it right the first time.


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Taraji P. Henson got more than a card on Mother's Day.
The 47-year-old "Empire" actress got engaged to former Super Bowl star Kelvin Hayden.
Henson posted a photo on Instagram showing off her diamond ring. She says the day started with a Cartier love bracelet before the 34-year-old corner back dropped to his knee. She wrote, "I said yes y'all!"
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Henson has a 24-year-old son from a previous relationship.
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Listening to music in the car affects the way you drive, but whether it's Bach or Eminem doesn't matter. The trick is to choose tunes that do not trigger distracting thoughts, memories, emotions or bopping along to the beat.
This takeaway message from an Israeli study was all over the Internet, US news programs and international newspapers months before it appeared in the October 2013 edition of Accident Analysis and Prevention.
The media attention has put lead researcher Warren Brodsky, director of music science research at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev, in the limelight more than any of his previous findings in music cognition, and has illuminated his research path for possibly the rest of his working days.
"It seems that every aspect of my career has led me down this path," Brodsky tells ISRAEL21c.
The study also was notable in scientific circles because it was commissioned by the Israel National Road Safety Authority, making Israel the only country in the world to fund an investigation of how background music puts drivers at risk for distraction.
Brodsky had long been interested in this phenomenon, given that people in modern cultures listen to music more in their cars than anywhere else.
"I wondered how listening to music affects driving behavior, and how the car environment influences what kind of music we listen to," he says.
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In 2002, Brodsky published the first study to show that fast-paced music directly causes accelerated driving speed. "It was perhaps a small study, but it made a huge splash around the world," he says.
Indeed, his finding even merited a mention on Saturday Night Live. Comedian Tina Fey reported: "A new study shows that drivers who listen to fast tempo music while driving have more accidents, while drivers listening to slow music have sexier accidents."
Performing arts to research
Born in Philadelphia, Brodsky moved with this family to Jerusalem at age 15. After high school at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, he played bass guitar with the well-known army band, the Nachal Troupe, and then returned to Rubin in 1982 to earn a bachelor's degree in percussion and music education.
His performances for soldiers had left him intrigued as to how music affects well-being. Music therapy was not yet taught in Israel – he later became one of its pioneers by earning a master of creative arts in music therapy at Hahnemann Medical University in Philadelphia, the only graduate program of music therapy within a mental health department of a medical school.
Returning to Israel, he worked in special-ed schools, state hospitals and mental health clinics. He began training music and movement therapists at Levinsky College in Tel Aviv in 1986, and was among the first to get licensed by Israel as a creative and expressive arts therapist.
In 1992, Brodsky and his family went to England for three years so he could study toward a doctorate in music psychology at Keele University under the mentorship of the renowned John Sloboda.
"I was interested in new fields like the biology of music-making, music medicine and performing-arts psychology," he says.
His work in the UK influenced British medical associations to reconceptualize "stage fright" as an occupational hazard rather than a mental health weakness or social phobia, that might best treated by clinicians with a background in music.
"It was important for the field that a new breed of musician – with clinical training and psychotherapeutic experience – take responsibility of how to treat performing musicians in the symphony orchestra, just as athletes might get counseling from a sports psychologist," he says.
The research bug had bitten Brodsky, and the effects were permanent. "I couldn't go back to the therapeutic arena after that. My heart wasn't in the clinic, and my passion to treat patients had been replaced by a deep passion and infatuation for empirical work."
He won a post-doc fellowship at BGU in the behavioral sciences department, and later became tenured as senior lecturer of music. Brodsky is the sole teacher of music courses in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Well-being vs. in-car entertainment
In 2008, Brodsky did a proof-of-concept study commissioned by General Motors about how music might strengthen brand identity of Chevrolet and Cadillac automobiles. He has also published investigations on handclapping songs of elementary school children and positive aging among orchestra players.
Then, in 2010, the Israel National Road Safety Authority provided funding to Brodsky for a large-scale on-the-road study involving young drivers. "It seemed like this was my calling. No one else in the world was invested in researching the effects of music on driver behavior – not from the field of music psychology or traffic safety," he says.
Previously, Brodsky and Israeli music composer Micha Kizner – a former buddy from the IDF Entertainment Unit — devised a program of original music carefully structured to increase driver safety and published pilot studies in the journal Transportation Research.
With this CD in hand, Brodsky and co-researcher Zack Slor recruited 85 young drivers to drive several 40-mimute trips with either their preferred cruising tracks brought from home or with the experimental CD. The results show a clear 20 percent decrease in driver errors, miscalculations, and aggressive driving accompanied by the alternative background music.
"Bottom line, the car is the only place in the world you can die just because you're listening to the wrong kind of music," says Brodsky, who is writing a book on the topic.
"Maybe we have to educate the public at large. There is a need to raise awareness and to teach drivers new practices of everyday music consumption – how to make better choices for roadway listening. It's a question of being more careful about preferences and exposure. In the end, it is an issue of health and well-being – not in-car entertainment."


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A 68-year-old man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was sentenced and prosecutors say there may be more victims who haven't come forward.
A Pottawattamie County judge sentenced Bobby Ervin Smith to 20 years in prison and ordered him to be supervised by corrections officers for the rest of his life.
"It was wrong. It should have never happened. I'll pay for it. Not here, but with the lord, forever," Smith said.
Judge Greg Steensland, who scolded Smith in court Monday, called the evidence overwhelming against Smith, who was convicted in November of sexually abusing a boy in 1998.
"You violated one of the most sacred trusts a person could have. You were a mentor to a 12-year-old boy," Steensland said. "That is one of the greatest violations this society could ever every think of, and the fact that you did it through your church is even worse."
The victim, now 27, told investigators that Smith assaulted him at a Council Bluffs motel during a fishing trip in 1998.
Smith knew him through his role as a youth coordinator at First Baptist Church in Harlan; however, the fishing trip was not part of a church activity.
Prosecutor Dan McGinn hopes this is the first of many convictions.
"We have reason to believe there are a lot of other victims," McGinn said.
Prosecutors urge any possible victims to go to the authorities.


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1⁄4 tsp. salt
1 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1⁄2 cup sour cream
1 egg yolk
For the filling:
1 package cream cheese
(8 oz.), softened
1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. grated lemon peel
3⁄4 cup pitted dried plums, coarsely chopped
Powdered sugar, as needed
- To make dough: In a food processor, or mixer bowl fitted with paddle attachment, combine flour and salt. Add butter; process or mix until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; set aside.
- In small bowl, combine sour cream and egg yolk until well mixed. Add to flour mixture; mix or process until dough just comes together.
- Form mixture into 2 equal discs. Wrap and chill at least 4 hours. Heat oven to 375°F.
- To make filling: In mixer bowl, beat cream cheese, and sugar until creamy. Add egg, vanilla, and lemon peel; beat well. Set aside.
- Liberally sprinkle work surface with powdered sugar. Roll one portion of dough into 10x71⁄2-in. rectangle. Cut into even squares.
- Place 1 tsp. of dried plums in center of each square and spoon 1 tbsp. cheese filling over dried plums. Gently gather the corners of the square together (but don't pinch the corners together).
Place in greased 13⁄4 x 11⁄4 x 3⁄4-in. mini muffin cups. Repeat with remaining dough and filling. Bake 25-30 min. or until light golden brown. Cool in pans on wire rack.